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APPENDIX 21: Letter from Dr John Slade to the Clerk of the Committee (TB 26) 

While the tobacco industry has secretly understood the addictive and toxic nature of its products, it has thrown a cover over the engineering and design of its products preventing health officials from knowing whether tobacco products are being manufactured with the least possible toxicity and addictiveness. The available evidence indicates, in fact, that cigarettes are deliberately designed to maximize addiction. . .

There also, frankly, is a large knowledge gap. Industry personnel have most of the active, working knowledge of how their products are designed and how they work. Government and non-government public health workers are at a tremendous disadvantage in this area.

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